Heads and Tales
by Hoffman, Malvina
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 416pp. Text. Index. Several suites of photographs of head figures in human history. Map endpapers. Bound in blue cloth, with illustrated dust jacket (book and jacket in much better than the usual condition). Dust jacket has small chipping at corners, and one 1" chip on rear panel.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010555
- Title
- Heads and Tales
- Author
- Hoffman, Malvina
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- Mankind, Heads, Sculptures, Anthropology
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
Terms of Sale
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Scottsdale, Arizona
About Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Alcuin Books located in Old Town Scottsdale is a store with 15,000 serious books for the collector or scholar. We have ample parking in front of the store for those who wish to browse our holdings.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- First Edition
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